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...Story of Our Continent; a Reader in the Geography and Geology of North America for the Use of Schools, is the title o one of Professor Shaler's two new books. It is by no means an uninstructive book for any student, although meant especially for schools It is in the line of advance in study of geography, a wakening an interest in the structure of land and the causes of its various forms which could never be felt in the mere names, boundaries and inhabitants of countries. Such study of itself carries interest into these drier facts, fixing names...
Although the book is intended, according to the preface, primarily for beginners in the study of geology, it is also full of interesting suggestions to more advanced students while the peculiar clearness and simplicity of its mode of presentation render it intelligible to the average reader who may not possess a technical knowledge of geology or biology...
...Communication" on Mr. Garrison's Letter to the Boston Herald, two editorials on the present stand of the faculty on the three year's scheme and on certain defects of the English Department, "The Month," and four book reviews, (among which, the reader will find Mr. Santayana's criticism of "In Cairo" by William Morton Fullerton especially valuable) complete the number...
...Christopher Columbus by Dr. Justin Winsor, Librarian of the university, deals with the discoverer of America in a manner essentially different from that of any other author on the subject. The aim seems to have been to present carefully collected facts in a way which will enable the reader to form the most real and accurate idea possible of Columbus as a man. Few men have been more written about and had more romances invented to fill out what they ought to have been, but in this work, special pains have been taken to separate the legends from the facts...
...whole Mr., Chamberlain's work appeals to every one interested in birds. It contains for the student valuable matter newly discovered and hitherto unpublished, and to the unskilled reader it presents a full account of our birds and their characteristics, phrased in well-known and untechnical terms...